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Though President Biden has teased a potential second run for the White House for months, sources tell Fox News that an announcement is expected after the State of the Union.

WASHINGTON — (AP) — Outgoing White House chief of staff Ron Klain burst into tears Wednesday as he talked about his boss, President Joe Biden, and his decades of work with him. “This is the best job I've ever had,” said Klain, immediately crying after he said he couldn't promise a tear-free speech. The East Room was packed with White House staff, aides and Cabinet members there to send Klain off, a Biden loyalist who has worked for the president off and on for 36 years. “I learned everything I know about how to be a good father from Joe Biden,” said Klain, the father of three, choking up. Klain is succeeded by Jeff Zients, who led the administration's COVID-19 response.

Outgoing White House chief of staff Ron Klain burst into tears Wednesday as he talked about his boss, President Joe Biden, and his decades of work with him.

Outgoing White House chief of staff Ron Klain burst into tears Wednesday as he talked about his boss, President Joe Biden, and his decades of work with him. Biden gently patted him on the back. The East Room was packed with White House staff, aides and Cabinet members there to send Klain off, a Biden loyalist who has worked for the president off and on for 36 years.

Joe Biden’s exiting chief of staff is a case study in the slow accumulation of expertise.

Outgoing White House Chief of Staff Ron Klain says the "leadership" from progressive Democrats has contributed to the "success" of the Biden administration.

In his official resignation letter, Klain offered a rare glimpse of how his many years of service alongside Biden, in multiple capacities, has affected him personally and professionally.

President Biden said the White House will have an official transition event next week.

President Joe Biden has announced Jeff Zients as his next White House chief of staff, tapping an experienced technocrat who headed his administration’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

The "Ruthless" podcast officially retired its long-running game show that poked fun at outgoing White House chief of staff Ron Klain's prolific Twitter activity.

President Biden will name Jeff Zients chief of staff, replacing Ron Klain. Though an important post, there's little doubt most people would be able to name many prior chiefs of staff.

President Biden is expected to name Jeff Zients as his next chief of staff, replacing Ron Klain. He had previously served as the head of the administration's Covid-19 response efforts. NBC's Kelly O'Donnell reports from the White House.

President Biden's incoming chief of staff, Jeff Zients, served as the federal government's COVID-19 response coordinator, and in a number of other roles during the Obama administration.

President Joe Biden is expected to name Jeff Zients, who was an Obama administration official and Biden’s COVID-19 vaccine distribution head, to succeed Ron Klain as the next White House chief of staff, several media outlets are reporting. Here’s what we know about Biden’s likely next chief of staff. He was chairman, chief executive officer and chief operating officer of the Advisory Board Company and chairman of the Corporate Executive Board. Zients co-chaired Biden’s presidential transition team in 2020. Klain asked Zients to prepare for staff departures following the 2022 midterm elections and help identify potential replacements.

President Biden plans to tap former COVID-19 czar Jeff Zients to be his new chief of staff after Ron Klain steps down in the coming days, Fox News confirmed.

President Joe Biden is expected to name the man who ran his administration’s initial response to the COVID-19 pandemic as his next chief of staff.

Zients is expected to take the job shortly after the president's State of the Union address​ on Feb. 7, people familiar with the plans said.

Jeff Zients to be Biden’s next chief of staff.

FOX Business host Larry Kudlow discussed WH Chief of Staff Ron Klain's expected departure after a new round of classified material was discovered Friday.

Ron Klain has been a behind-the-scenes force in helping the president get big legislation across the finish line. He also oversaw the rockier periods of President Biden's two years in office.

— (AP) — White House chief of staff Ron Klain, who has spent more than two years as President Joe Biden's top aide, is preparing to leave his job in the coming weeks, according to a person familiar with Klain's plans. His tenure as chief of staff is the longest for a Democratic president in modern times. The White House did not return calls or emails seeking comment on Klain’s expected exit. Now that Republicans have regained a majority in the House, the White House is preparing to shift to a more defensive posture. GOP lawmakers are planning multiple investigations into the Biden administration, examining everything from the chaotic U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan to U.S. border policy.

White House chief of staff Ron Klain is preparing to leave his job in the coming weeks.

White House Chief of Staff Ron Klain is preparing to step down from the Biden administration in the coming weeks, The New York Times reported.

Top Biden aide has not set a date for departure, colleagues say

White House officials see enormous downsides to either negotiating with Republicans on the spending limit or trying to resolve the impasse unilaterally.

'The Five' co-hosts discuss White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre stonewalling reporters about the classified documents found at President Biden's Delaware home and the Biden Penn Center.

Newly empowered House Republicans are demanding the White House turn over all information related to its searches that have uncovered classified documents at President Joe Biden’s home and former office.

WASHINGTON — (AP) — For the Biden White House, a quartet of four female judges in Colorado encapsulates its mission when it comes to the federal judiciary. The 97 from the Biden presidency includes Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, that court's first Black woman, as well as 28 circuit court judges and 68 district court judges. Three out of every four judges tapped by Biden and confirmed by the Senate in the past two years were women. The White House prioritized judicial nominations from the start, with Biden transition officials soliciting names of potential picks from Democratic senators in late 2020. But cases like Pocan's have been rare, Durbin said, and other influential Republicans are affording some level of deference to the Biden White House when it comes to judges.

The White House and Senate Democrats are closing out the first two years of Joe Biden’s presidency having installed more federal judges than his two immediate predecessors.

White House Chief of Staff Ron Klain said it "frustrates" President Biden when the media "invents" panic on the supply chain crisis, according to a forthcoming book.

When he ran for the White House, Joe Biden told voters his presidency would be a bridge to the next generation.

White House Chief of Staff Ron Klain was slammed on Wednesday for tweeting out a list of White House "talking points" to use against "that uncle" at Thanksgiving.

Even with their threadbare House majority, Republicans doubled down this week on using their new power to investigate the Biden administration and in particular the president’s son.

"Ticketmaster monopoly got you down? Take action," Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said after the general sale for Taylor Swift Eras Tour was cancelled.

White House Chief of Staff Ron Klain incorrectly claimed that Joe Biden was the first president since John F. Kennedy to gain Senate seats during the midterms.

Ticketmaster's website crashed Tuesday as Taylor Swift fans flocked to the site to purchase tickets to the singer's upcoming tour.

Ron Klain, White House chief of staff, talks about how the Democratic accomplishments on the Biden agenda helped give Democratic candidates a basis on which to campaign in 2022.

President Joe Biden is declaring that his Democratic Party “had a strong night” in the midterm elections.

Joe Biden wasn't the first choice of progressives for the White House in 2020.

Earlier this week, White House chief of staff Ron Klain was found to be in violation of federal law for using his government Twitter account to promote Democratic candidates for elected office.

She was referring to violations of the Hatch Act, a 1939 law that prohibits federal officials from engaging in political activities. "I recall in the White House when we would get Hatch Act violations, that was a badge of honor. It was a joke in the White House," Trump's former communications director Stephanie Grisham said last year. A month before, he had announced that he was running for the White House. Tonight a candidate tore down that wall and wielded power for his own campaign," argued former White House ethics counselor Walt Shaub.

White House chief of staff Ron Klain received a warning from the Office of Special Counsel for violating the Hatch Act with a retweet of a political post.

Top aide Ron Klain "got it wrong this time" and will be more careful, the White House said Thursday. The memo dated Wednesday said Klain ran afoul of the Hatch Act, which prohibits government officials from using their official roles to influence elections, including supporting candidates, while acting in their official capacities. The message Klain retweeted on May 22 from STRIKE PAC, a Democratic group, was about delivering infant formula to Americans. No disciplinary action will be pursued and the office, an independent government watchdog that monitors violations of the Hatch Act, considers the matter closed. "I have to be careful of what I say, because we do respect the Hatch Act here in this administration,” she said.

White House Chief of Staff Ron Klain claimed on MSNBC Thursday that the Biden administration has been pushing an economic message "all year long" ahead of the midterms.

The memo dated Wednesday said Ron Klain ran afoul of the Hatch Act, which prohibits government officials from using their official roles to influence elections, including supporting candidates, while acting in their official capacities. The message Klain retweeted on May 22 from STRIKE PAC, a Democratic group, was about delivering infant formula to Americans. No disciplinary action will be pursued and the office, an independent government watchdog that monitors violations of the Hatch Act, considers the matter closed. White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre often cites the Hatch Act in deflecting political questions during news briefings. "I have to be careful of what I say, because we do respect the Hatch Act here in this administration,” she said.

An independent government watchdog says President Joe Biden’s chief of staff violated the law by retweeting a political message on his official Twitter account.

President Joe Biden's chief of staff violated the law by retweeting a political message on his government Twitter account, and a warning letter was sent to him, according to a memo from the Office of Special Counsel. Top aide Ron Klain “got it wrong this time” and will be more careful, the White House said Thursday. The memo dated Wednesday said Klain ran afoul of the Hatch Act, which prohibits government officials from using their official roles to influence elections, including supporting candidates, while acting in their official capacities.

Their focus is on getting reformulated booster shots to seniors and the immunocompromised to avert thousands of preventable deaths.

White House Chief of Staff Ron Klain joined "Morning Joe" on Thursday to discuss President Biden's SPR announcement and Democratic messaging ahead of the midterms.

The strategic reserves are at their lowest levels since 1984 after Biden in March announced the release of 180 million barrels over six months. Bloomberg News reported Monday that the administration is moving toward an additional release of 10 million to 15 million barrels. Biden still faces political headwinds because of gas prices. The hard math for Biden is that oil production has yet to return to its pre-pandemic level of roughly 13 million barrels a day. It's about a million barrels a day shy of that level.

WASHINGTON — (AP) — Joe Biden — a president who wants to move past fossil fuels — is rushing to increase oil supplies ahead of next month's midterm elections. Still, reserves are at their lowest levels since 1984 after Biden in March announced the release of 180 million barrels over six months. The officials spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss plans publicly ahead of a White House announcement. Bloomberg News reported Monday that the administration is moving toward an additional release of 10 million to 15 million barrels. Bernstein suggested to Fox News Sunday that the reserve is large enough that the White House could tap it again.

Ron Klain, the White House chief of staff, was attacked on Twitter over boasting about Social Security increases despite high inflation rates reported on Thursday.

According to The NYT, Trump often eschewed reading through detailed intelligence reports but was attracted to graphics and other data-driven visuals.

Ron Klain, President Biden's' Chief of Staff, was slammed on Twitter for falsely claiming the unemployment rate was 10% when Biden took office and that the economy has improved.

Biden wisely resisted pressure a few months ago to replace his chief of staff, Ron Klain.

To insure against future spikes in the price of oil, the administration needs to encourage investment in production now.

The White House chief of staff's bold claim includes some double-counting and funny numbers.

President Joe Biden will soon be signing into law a major bill to revive the U.S. computer chip sector.

COVID-19 symptoms left President Joe Biden with a deep, raspy voice and persistent cough as he met Friday via videoconference with his top economic team, but he tried to strike a reassuring tone, declaring, “I feel much better than I sound.”.

Biden aides are debating whether to declare a "public health emergency" on abortion access. Some argue it wouldn't do much, but they face great pressure.

The White House released its annual salary report for the Biden White House. Here is how some of Biden's top paid staff compares to Donald Trump's.

President Joe Biden’s top political advisers are bracing for big election losses in November.

Jen Psaki is leaving as White House press secretary on Friday after having answered reporters’ questions nearly every weekday of the almost 500 days that President Joe Biden has been in office.

Tearfully embracing a history-making moment, Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson said Friday her confirmation as the first Black woman to the Supreme Court shows the progress of America.

Federal student loan borrowers could get more time before they have to resume payments again.

Addressing a concerned nation and anxious world, President Joe Biden has vowed in his first State of the Union address to check Russian aggression in Ukraine, tame soaring U.S. inflation and deal with the fading but still dangerous coronavirus.

Face coverings are now optional for President Joe Biden’s State of the Union address, set for Tuesday.

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The White House says President Joe Biden will meet with Senate Judiciary Committee leaders on Tuesday to discuss the upcoming U.S. Supreme Court vacancy and the president’s promise to nominate a Black woman to the high court.

President Joe Biden has strongly affirmed that he will nominate the first Black woman to the U.S. Supreme Court.

President Joe Biden is eyeing at least three judges for an expected vacancy on the Supreme Court, and each of them would fulfill his campaign pledge to nominate the first Black woman to the nation’s highest court.

President Joe Biden came to office seeing two sicknesses in his country.

White House counsel Dana Remus made a lasting impression on her colleagues with her calm during the chaotic time after last year’s election when Donald Trump challenged the legitimacy of Joe Biden’s victory.

Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo is on a mission to save American jobs — one computer chip at a time.

President Joe Biden is hoping to turn the page after a summer of unrelenting crises and refocus his presidency around his core economic agenda.

After a summer of unrelenting crises, President Joe Biden is hoping to turn the page and refocus his presidency this fall around his core economic agenda.

The resurgence of COVID-19 this summer and the national debate over vaccine requirements have created a fraught situation for the nation’s first responders, who are dying in larger numbers but pushing back against mandates.

The White House says President Joe Biden has filled about 56% of his senior White House staff positions with women, including about 36% coming from racially and-or ethnically diverse backgrounds.

President Joe Biden’s lone Cabinet choice who was rebuffed by Congress has landed a job as a White House senior adviser.

A flurry of diplomatic activity and reports of major progress suggest that indirect talks between the U.S. and Iran may be nearing a conclusion.

Two White House officials say the U.S. trade representative will begin talks in the World Trade Organization on ways to overcome intellectual property issues that are keeping poorer countries from making their own generic version of critically needed COVID-19 vaccines.

Sixteen states are backing Alabama’s challenge to a new method the Census Bureau is using in an effort to protect the privacy of people who participated in the head count.

The Senate filibuster is coming under fresh scrutiny.

President Joe Biden says Republicans have talked for years about the need to rebuild the nation’s infrastructure and predicts GOP lawmakers will face pressure from their supporters if they don’t act.

President Joe Biden is setting about convincing America it needs his $2.3 trillion infrastructure plan.

President Joe Biden's first Cabinet meeting looked and felt different from those held by his predecessor.

(AP Photo/Evan Vucci)WASHINGTON – Joe Biden will convene his first Cabinet meeting on Thursday, a presidential rite of passage that will be used to promote his new infrastructure plan. Ad“The meetings can help align priorities, build morale, and allow Cabinet members to develop relationships with colleagues who they don’t normally see,” Lu said. The White House has highlighted that this Cabinet is the most diverse in history. In normal times, scheduling an in-person Cabinet meeting would require weeks, if not months, of planning to block off time in the travel schedules of the various principals. The Cabinet members will soon begin to fan out across the country to pitch both the COVID-19 relief and infrastructure plans, officials said.

Biden is taking the opposite approach of the Clinton administration to help the economy. White House aides are comparing the scope of Biden's policy ambitions to Franklin Delano Roosevelt's after the Great Depression. Biden was probably the best about this.”AdCelinda Lake conducted polling for both the Clinton and Biden campaigns. The Biden administration is now challenging China, which never embraced the values of democracy as trade advocates once believed it would. But he sees the Biden administration as pursuing new policies to help workers.

President Joe Biden listens to a question during a news conference in the East Room of the White House, Thursday, March 25, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)NEW YORK – Joe Biden's first presidential news conference was notable for what was missing after predecessor Donald Trump: no contentious exchanges with reporters, no Fox News and no questions about COVID-19. Before taking a question, Biden announced he was setting a new goal of having 200 million vaccine doses for the coronavirus administered during his first 100 days in office. Trump on Thursday accused the White House reporters of throwing “softballs” to Biden. AdThat quickly became an issue at Fox, where the chyron “Biden Snubs Fox News during First News Conf” was put onscreen.

WASHINGTON – At least one group in America is unlikely to get any money from President Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion economic rescue plan — his own top aides. Most of Biden’s senior West Wing advisers made far more than the threshold that would qualify them for direct payments from the president’s COVID-19 relief bill, according to White House financial disclosure forms released Saturday. Others in the West Wing — whose positions don't require Senate confirmation — have had deep ties to the business world. He was listed as having a salary of $1.8 million, according to his disclosure form. Brian Deese, head of the national economic council, was previously global head of sustainable investing at BlackRock, according to his disclosure.

President Joe Biden speaks about the COVID-19 pandemic during a prime-time address from the East Room of the White House, Thursday, March 11, 2021, in Washington. “While it was different for everyone, we all lost something," Biden said of the sacrifices of the yearlong-and-counting pandemic. In his Thursday night address, Biden said that as vaccine supplies continue to increase, he will direct states and territories to make all adults eligible for vaccination by May 1. Biden had originally planned to sign the bill on Friday, but it arrived at the White House more quickly than anticipated. Almost exactly one year ago, President Donald Trump addressed the nation to mark the WHO’s declaration of a global pandemic.

President Joe Biden speaks about the COVID-19 pandemic during a prime-time address from the East Room of the White House, Thursday, March 11, 2021, in Washington. “While it was different for everyone, we all lost something," Biden said of the sacrifices of the yearlong-and-counting pandemic. In his Thursday night address, Biden said that as vaccine supplies continue to increase, he will direct states and territories to make all adults eligible for vaccination by May 1. Biden had originally planned to sign the bill on Friday, but it arrived at the White House more quickly than anticipated. Trump, it was later revealed, acknowledged that he had been deliberately “playing down” the threat of the virus.

President Joe Biden participates in a roundtable discussion on a coronavirus relief package in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington, Friday, March 5, 2021. It reflects a White House media strategy meant both to reserve major media set-pieces for the celebration of a legislative victory and to limit unforced errors from a historically gaffe-prone politician. In a sharp contrast with the previous administration, the White House is exerting extreme message discipline, empowering staff to speak but doing so with caution. The volume has been turned so low in the Biden White House that they need to worry about whether anyone is listening," said Frank Sesno, former head of George Washington University's school of media. “Presidential press conferences are not on the top of the agenda for Americans who are worried about COVID and the economic disaster that has befallen so many families,” he said.

President Joe Biden participates in a roundtable discussion on a coronavirus relief package in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington, Friday, March 5, 2021. It reflects a White House media strategy meant both to reserve major media set-pieces for the celebration of a legislative victory and to limit unforced errors from a historically gaffe-prone politician. In a sharp contrast with the previous administration, the White House is exerting extreme message discipline, empowering staff to speak but doing so with caution. The volume has been turned so low in the Biden White House that they need to worry about whether anyone is listening," said Frank Sesno, former head of George Washington University's school of media. “Presidential press conferences are not on the top of the agenda for Americans who are worried about COVID and the economic disaster that has befallen so many families,” he said.

But lawmakers and advocates are racing to capitalize on House rules that allow any bill to bypass lengthy committee hearings if brought forward by April 1. Senate Republicans are now threatening similar delays. Ad“We’ll be fighting this in every way that we can,” Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell said about the COVID-19 package. McConnell wants Senate Republicans to vote in lockstep against the virus aid, calling it a bloated liberal wish list, following the lead of House Republicans who gave it zero support. That leaves Democrats negotiating with themselves on the COVID-19 package, with Biden warning they won’t like every aspect as he courts centrists.

Neera Tanden, President Joe Biden's nominee for Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), appears beofre a Senate Committee on the Budget hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Feb. 10, 2021. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, Pool)WASHINGTON – President Joe Biden's pick to head the Office of Management and Budget, Neera Tanden, has withdrawn her nomination after she faced opposition from key Democratic and Republican senators for her controversial tweets. Thirteen of the 23 Cabinet nominees requiring Senate approval have been confirmed, most with strong bipartisan support. But without Manchin’s support, the White House was left scrambling to find a Republican to support her. White House chief of staff Ron Klain initially insisted the administration was “fighting our guts out” for her.

In this Feb. 9, 2021 photo, White House deputy press secretary TJ Ducklo listens as press secretary Jen Psaki speaks during a press briefing at the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)WASHINGTON – White House deputy press secretary T.J. Ducklo has resigned, the day after he was suspended for issuing a sexist and profane threat to a journalist seeking to cover his relationship with another reporter. In a statement Saturday, Ducklo said he was “devastated to have embarrassed and disappointed my White House colleagues and President Biden.”Ad“No words can express my regret, my embarrassment and my disgust for my behavior,” he said. White House press secretary Jen Psaki faced a flurry of questions about the controversy Friday, with reporters highlighting Biden's comments and questioning the decision to merely suspend Ducklo for a week. She pointed to apologies made by top members of the White House communications team and Ducklo himself to the Politico reporter as ample moves reflecting the seriousness of the situation.

With vaccine supplies running tight, they want assurances that the doses will come from a separate federal supply and not their own. Eager to protect more people against the coronavirus, health officials in Oklahoma jumped at the chance to add large, federally supported vaccination sites. The Biden administration's virus response plan calls for opening 100 federally supported vaccination sites by the end of February. “We just opened our first two federal vaccination centers, in California this week," Klain told NBC News. Officials in New York and Texas said the federal government told them that the vaccines distributed in the federal sites there would not count against the states’ allocations.

In this Feb. 9, 2021 photo, White House deputy press secretary TJ Ducklo listens as press secretary Jen Psaki speaks during a press briefing at the White House in Washington. Ducklo has been suspended for a week without pay after he reportedly issued a sexist and profane threat to a journalist seeking to cover his relationship with another reporter. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)WASHINGTON – White House deputy press secretary T.J. Ducklo has been suspended for a week without pay after he reportedly issued a sexist and profane threat to a journalist seeking to cover his relationship with another reporter. Psaki said in a statement earlier Friday that Ducklo had been suspended without pay with the approval of White House chief of staff Ron Klain. But the Biden White House sought to strike a more cordial and professional tone with the Washington press corps from the start, installing a cadre of seasoned Washington communicators led by Psaki.